Books, food, friends, and Virginia Woolf.
"I spare you the twists and turns of my cogitations, for no conclusion was found on the road to Headingly, and I ask you to suppose that I soon found out my mistake about the turning and retraced my steps to Fernham."--Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Heavy Stack, Light Blogging

One happy consequence of the fact that I’m writing scholarly stuff again is that I’ve read a bunch of books which I want to tell you about—or compose my thoughts out loud about—and I haven’t had the chance. So I have this stack of books that I carry from my bedroom to the dining room (where I work), from a corner of a hidden shelf, to out in the open without actually composing the posts.

So, as a kind of teaser, here is the stack:

Teaching Community by bell hooks (purchased in Louisville at the CCCConvention last weekend)

Push by Sapphire (which I loved)

Trailer Girl by Therese Svoboda (the title novella of which is utterly stunning, though the stories that follow are less even)

A Coffin for Dimitrios by Eric Ambler (a great classic thriller)

Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott (which is really weird and disappointing)

A Guide to College Writing Assessment (O’Neill et al., another CCCC purchase, but one I’m unlikely to blog about here)

Some small press catalogs

And my comments on a couple dozen essays nominated for the upcoming edition of the Norton Reader.

Maybe some of these will get a post of their own one day. But for now, I’m going back to the stacks—the Woolf stacks, that is. Time’s a-wasting.